[2009-07-20]
Website has undergone a major revamp
1. Theme re-designed
2. New banner pic
3. Improved navigation
4. Improved layout with menu
5. New pages added including sitemaps and Google Live Android pages.
[2008-09-07]
Website has been rearranged a bit and I have the server
"unique" setup again.
dellazoid.homelinux.net = the Dell Inspiron 530, Core 2 Duo,
2.33 GHz, 2 GB ram, 320 GB SATA
This is my main desktop machine. It handles the Arch Linux
Adoration Page and gets the most use (occasionally boots into XP).
unique.homelinux.net = the HP Pavilion XE-743, Intel
Pentium III Celeron, 600 MHz, 384 MB ram, 80 GB PATA
This uses dyndns.org to webhop to dellazoid.homelinux.net:81,
and then my router redirects port 81 to the HP machine.
This is my secondary machine and mostly handles the Slackware
Adoration Page website and backups.
[2008-05-06]
The site still being hosted on Charter.
Gave the Gateway E-3400 to my Mom, since it had Windows XP Home on it
and she desperately needed her Windows 98 replaced. She told me she
was getting dialog boxes popping up saying something about "someone
else is using your computer ...". Oh dear, some h4x0r rooted my Mom!
So out with 98 and in with XP for her (she just wouldn't be able to
handle a linux box, she's 87 for Christsake!)
I was saddened to discover that she only had a 26K modem, so it got
replaced with an old 56K one I had laying around. She now surfs a bit
faster, and tho I've tried I just can't convince her to move up to 5
Mbps cable service. Also this Gateway now has 512M of ram whereas the
old HP had 64M ram.
Her old HP Pavilion XE-743 got upgraded to 384M ram, replaced the cdrom
and replaced the hard drive (20G up to 80G). It now has linux on it
and is serving as my backups boxen.
[2008-04-27]
Site has been moved to my Charter site due to hardware failures.
Well, it all started with the need to do some in-case cleaning. The
cpu heat sink was seriously clogged with household dust and needed
cleaning badly.
But, when disassembled, some fragile plastic parts simply
fell apart.
So, it was time to create a frakenmonster pc out of an old
Gateway E-3400 machine (Intel P3 Coppermine, 933 MHz) that a
friend gave me (the old one was an AMD 850 MHz Athlon K7).
[2007-10-31]
Bought a new PC - Dell Inspiron 530 Desktop:
* Intel Core 2 Duo processor E6550 (2.33GHz 1333FSB)
w/Dual Core Technology and 4MB cache
* 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz
* Dell USB 4 Button Premium Optical Mouse with Scroll
* Dell USB Keyboard
* 128 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8300GS
* 320 GB Serial ATA 2 Hard Drive (7200RPM)
* Dell 19-in-1 Media Card Reader
* Image Restore
* Microsoft Windows XP Professional,Service Pack 2, English
* Backup media for XP Pro Dimension C521
* Power DVD 7.0
* Integrated NIC card
* Roxio Creator Basic
* 16X DVD+/-RW Drive
* Integrated Audio
Of course, I immediately installed Slackware 12-current and also Ubuntu
Gutsy 7.10
[2007-06-08]
Charter Communications ISP is having troubles of late. Last weekend my
5 Mbps connection was only able to muster a mere 680 Kbps download rate
and the upload was at times as low as 10 Kbps. This severely sux0rs.
Reports are that they are having serious problems with their head end
systems. (Problem resolved: nic failing, Resolution: $15 nic. This
really pissed me off, because Charter blamed everything from their own
servers to apartment wiring before I found this out myself by
connecting my son's laptop and finding out it worked just fine.)
[2006-12-01]
Purchased a Lite-On LH-18A1P-185 DVD Recorder/Player. Began using dvd
format for Slackware installs.
[2006-08-24]
First day with Charter Cable Internet at 5 Mbps, nice.
[2006-01-21]
First day with Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop, purchased for my son's birthday.
[2005-09-10]
Linksys BEFSR41 Cable/DSL Router with
4-port switch arrives.
[2005-08-23]
The newly formatted site is up!
[2005-07-19]
DSL Connection snafu worked out:
My old Westell Wirespeed 35R-516 DSL modem had decided to die (most
likely on the day of service disconnection. Coincidence?).
Replaced the Wirespeed with an Efficient Networks Speedstream 5100,
switching from pppoe to DHCP.
[2005-07-11]
The phone is working but the DSL isn't. I spend the entire week,
calling SBC each day, trying to discover the problem.
[2005-07-06]
While moving to another apartment, I lost my DSL connection due to
mis-communication with Ameren UE Connections Service.
Seems they couldn't understand the words "Don't disconnect old
residence before connecting the new residence."
[2005, February or March]
First started "attending" Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris:1 chat.
